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Re: Certification or College degrees?

  • From: Andrew Dorsett
  • Date: Wed May 22 19:05:29 2002

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Nigel Clarke wrote:

> What do you think is more respected, a masters degree in
> Networking Engineering or a CCIE. In most

One of my arguments is that this doesn't exist but at a FEW schools
around the world and only at the MS level.  I've been looking for a
network engineering program because personally I don't see myself being
required to design a processor, as long as I know how it behaves and
operates.  Sure some believe its required to know how to build a processor and I think its really cool
(Yes I do know) but to some this is not important because they will
never be required to build one.  This would be the perfect curriculum.  I know Valdis is from VT, so I hope he's listening.  Why
couldn't we as a networking community sit down and come up with a degree
program that goes from BS to PhD?  Sure it can touch on basic programming
and basic processor design, but it would be more heavily weighted towards
utilizing technologies on the market and creating solutions to the common
programs.  It could be a mix between the CCIE, Net+, etc.  Because I know
my Comp Engineering program doesn't touch on anything related at all to
networking, and never even mentions the idea of security.  So why not
create a focused area for this?

- Andrew
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